Psychology in Modules

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This new edition continues the story of psychology with added research and enhanced content from the most dynamic areas of the fieldcognition, gender and diversity studies, neuroscience and more, while at the same time using the most effective teaching approaches and learning tools

Preface

xix

Prologue: The Story of Psychology

1

(1)

Psychology's Roots

1

(8)

Prescientific Psychology

2

(2)

Psychological Science Is Born

4

(2)

Psychological Science Develops

6

(3)

Contemporary Psychology

9

(9)

Psychology's Big Issues

9

(2)

Psychology's Perspectives

11

(1)

Psychology's Subfields

12

(3)

Close-Up: Your Study of Psychology

15

(3)

Thinking Critically with Psychological Science

18

(38)

The Need for Psychological Science

19

(7)

The Limits of Intuition and Common Sense

19

(3)

The Scientific Attitude

22

(2)

The Scientific Method

24

(2)

Description

26

(4)

The Case Study

26

(1)

The Survey

27

(2)

Naturalistic Observation

29

(1)

Correlation

30

(7)

Correlation and Causation

32

(1)

Illusory Correlations

33

(1)

Perceiving Order in Random Events

34

(2)

Thinking Critically About: Hot and Cold Streaks in Basketball and the Stock Market